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281.695 Powers of Department of Vehicle Regulation to regulate rates and
service.
(1)
(2)
The department has authority to fix or approve the rates, fares, charges,
classifications, rules, and regulations of each common carrier, and to regulate
operating schedules so as to insure adequate and convenient transportation
service. If the department, after a hearing held upon its own motion or upon
complaint, and in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B, finds any existing rate to
be excessive, inadequate, unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or finds the
services rendered or facilities employed by any common carrier to be unsafe,
inadequate, inconvenient, or in violation of law or of the administrative
regulations of the department, it may determine the just and reasonable rate to
be charged therefor, or the reasonable, safe, adequate, and convenient service
to be thereafter furnished, and shall fix the same by final order. The department
need not fix the same rates as are or may be fixed by other authorities for
carriers engaged in other methods of transportation.
The department has authority to fix or approve the contracts and regulations of
each contract carrier so as to insure adequate and convenient transportation
service. If the department, after a hearing held as provided in subsection (1) of
this section, finds any existing contract to be excessive, unreasonable, or
unjustly discriminatory, or finds the services rendered or facilities employed by
any contract carrier to be unsafe, inadequate, inconvenient, or in violation of
law or of the administrative regulations of the department, it may determine the
just and reasonable amounts to be charged therefor, or the reasonable, safe,
adequate, and convenient service to be thereafter furnished, and shall fix the
same by final order.
Effective:July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 203, effective July 15, 1996. -Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 26, effective June 15, 1950.
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